São Pedro de Muel (Raricostatum zone) (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (39.8° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 0.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Raricostatum (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• Exact stratigraphic position is uncertain because specimens were found in fallen blocks on the beach

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Jose Filipe Moura Braganca

• Repository: Serviços Geologicos de Portugal

Primary reference: M. T. Antunes, R. B. Rocha, and S. Wenz. 1981. Faunule ichthyologique du Lias inférieur de S. Pedro de Muel, Portugal. Ciências da Terra (UNL) 6:101-116 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127285: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.05.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ionoscopiformes - Furidae
Furo cf. orthostomus Agassiz 1842 ray-finned fish
SPM1, 2
Actinopteri
 Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
Proleptolepis sp.
SPM3, 4, 5, 6